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A Proactive Approach to Ensure Well Integrity During the Construction and Operation of Wells
Salim Taoutaou
A Systematic Approach to Water Management in Unconventional Reservoirs While Doing Surface Field Development Planning
Lorenzo Hernandez
Addressing New Opportunities in Mature Oil and Gas Fields
Arshad Khan
Advanced Coiled Tubing Engineering and Best Practices
Advanced Exploration and Drilling Geomechanics
Advanced Well Stimulation Field Problems
Advances in Formation Testing
Hani Elshahawi
An Overview of Enhanced Heavy Oil Recovery
Behrooz Fattahi
An Overview of Microseismic Imaging of Hydraulic Fracturing
Kenneth D. Mahrer
An Overview of Multistage Completion Systems for Hydraulic Fracturing
Aaron Burton
Applied Enhanced Oil Recovery with Emphasis on Gas/WAG
Son-Huu Do
Applied Statistical Modeling and Data Analytics for Reservoir Performance Analysis
Dr. Srikanta Mishra
Artificial Lift
Rajan Chokshi
Artificial Lift and Production Optimization Solutions
Assessing Well Integrity Risk: A Qualitative Model
Jerry Dethlefs
Assessing Wellbore Safety Integrity
Shah Kabir
Assessment of Petroleum Properties
Russell Bertholf
Basic Oilfield Corrosion and Control via Chemical Solutions
Mohamed Abou Zour
Basic Pressure - Transient Test Analysis
W. John Lee
Basic Reservoir Engineering
Hemanta Mukherjee
Basics of Artificial Lift Systems
Basics of Geomodeling – An Overview for Reservoir Engineers
David Garner
Big Loop — Quantification of Reservoir Uncertainties from Seismic to Simulation for Reliable Production Forecast
Taha Taha
Borehole Surveying Awareness
Angus L. Jamieson
Caprock Integrity for Thermal Recovery
Pat McLellan
Cased Hole and Production Log Evaluation
James J. Smolen
Casing and Tubing Design
Peter Erpelding
Cement Evaluation and Remediation
James Smolen, William K. (Bill) Ott
Cement Remediation
William K. (Bill) Ott
Challenges of Sub-Salt Exploration and Development in Deep Sea Middle East and North Africa
Bjorn Wygrala, Bernard Montaron, Lisa Marlow
Chemical Enhanced Recovery
Mojdeh Delshad
Coalbed Methane Evaluation and Development
Steve Hennings
Considerations for Thermal Well Design
Mark Chartier
Contemporary Topics for Liquid-Rich Shale (LRS) Reservoirs: Fluid Sampling, Characterization and Gas-Injection EOR
Brent Thomas
Critical Geomechanics Concepts and Applications to Unconventionals Completions
Data Analytics for Drilling Process Improvement
Data-Driven Reservoir Modeling
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Susan Peterson
Deep and Ultra Deepwater Petroleum Development
Peter Aird
Deepwater Drilling and Production Technology
Terry N. Gardner
Design and Optimization of Artificial Lift Systems
Design of Fiber-Optic DTS and DAS Well Installations
Dennis Dria, Bill Shroyer
Developing Strategic Thinking and Planning Skills
Dr Kamel Ben-Naceur
Developing, Understanding and Application of Type Curves in the WCSB
Art McMullen
DFIT - The Unconventional Well Test: Theory, Design, and Interpretation
David P. Craig
Diagnosis and Analysis of Waterfloods
Diagnosis and Practical Solutions for Wellbore Fluid and Heat Flow Problems
Shah Kabir, Rashid Hasan
Digital Oil Fields Building Blocks
Mike Williamson
Discovery and Recovery Thinking in Shales
Creties Jenkins
Effective Planning and Execution of Oil and Gas Projects
Williams Chirinos
Engineering Interpretation and Integration of Microseismic Results
Norm Warpinski
Enhanced Oil Recovery Fundamentals
Larry W. Lake
Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods for Conventional Reservoirs - A Lifeline for an Old and "Tired" Reservoir?
Hemanta K. Sarma
Ensuring Reliable SCAL Data for Reservoir Modeling
Shawket Ghedan
ESP Application Design for Production Engineers
Sandy Williams, Matt Hackworth
ESP Basic
Mike Berry, David Divine
ESP Teardown and Root Cause Failure Analysis
Jeff Dwiggins, Arthur Watson
Estimation, Classification and Reporting of Reserves and Resources
Evaluation of Canadian Oil and Gas Properties
John Carlson, Hayley Silberg, Cameron P. Six, Keith Carr, Miles Hughes, Matthew O’Blenes, Barry Hanson, Liam O’Brien, Tamara Warren
Everyone Can Be a Leader: How to Influence with or Without Authority
Lori R. Dalrymple
Facilities Sand Management for the Upstream Oil & Gas Industry
Dr. Hank Rawlins
Fiber-Optic Sensing: Introduction to the Technology and In-Well Sensing Applications
Dennis Dria
Field Development Economics
Mark Cook, David Palmer
Field Developments and Technical Solutions - Marginal Fields (2 Days)
Ahmed Aly
Field Developments and Technical Solutions - Marginal Fields (5 Days)
Field Piloting for EOR/IOR Schemes
Ashok K. Singhal
Filtration and Separations Technical Training for Oil and Gas, Chemical and Petrochemical Industries - Principles, Applications, and Troubleshooting
David Engel, Heath Burns
Flow Assurance & Production Chemistry Course
Ali Moosavi, Dalia Abdallah, Gordon M. Graham
Flow Assurance—Managing Flow Dynamics and Production Chemistry
Abul Jamaluddin
Flow-Control-Devices for Thermal Recovery Operations
Kousha Gohari, Mazda Irani, Oscar Becerra Moreno
Forecasting Well Production Data in Unconventional Resources
Dilhan Ilk
Formation and Prevention of Oilfield Scale: From the Laboratory to the Field (1 Day)
Eric Mackay
Formation Damage Prevention
Michael Byrne
Formation Damage in Waterflooding, Produced Water Re-Injection and EOR
Pavel Bedrikovetsky
Fracpacking for Sand Control
Wm. David Norman
Fracturing Fundamentals for Non-Fracers
Carl T. Montgomery
Fundamentals of Reservoir Description & Modeling with Geostatistics
David O. Ogbe
Fundamentals of Reservoir Simulation
J. Robert Gochnour
Fundamentals of SPE-PRMS
Fundamentals of Subsurface Development Planning for Coalbed Methane
Laurent Alessio
Fundamentals of Thermal Well Design
Trent Kaiser, Mark Chartier
Gas EOR in Tight Unconventionals
Curtis Hays Whitson
Gas Field Development: Offshore Projects
Prof Peter Behrenbruch
Gas Shale Reservoirs Evaluation Methods
Reza Rezaee
Geological Sequestration of CO2
Charles Fox, S. M. (Sam) Avasthi, J. M. (Jay) Avasthi
Geology for Engineers
Thomas F. Moslow, Jean-Yves Chatellier
Geomechanical Aspects in CO2 Storage
Schlumberger Limited
Geomechanics for Conventional and Unconventional Resources
Geomechanics for Holistic Sand Management
Geophysical Application to Petroleum Engineering
Peter Bartok
GHG and CCS Regulatory and Legal Frameworks
Kipp Coddington
Global Energy Markets
Dr. Kamel Ben-Naceur
Heavy Oil Exploitation
History Matching and Conditioning Reservoir Models to Dynamic Data
Akhil Datta-Gupta
Horizontal Drilling – Design Applications
Dr Robello Samuel
Horizontal Well Completions
Dr. Sudiptya Banerjee, W. Aaron Burton
How to Use ISO and API Standards for Artificial Lift Systems
David McCalvin
Hydraulic Fracturing Optimisation
Ahmed Abou-Sayed
Hydraulic Fracturing – A Concise Overview
Carl T. Montgomery, Wm. David Norman
Hydraulic Fracturing – Design and Treatment
Michael Smith, Carl T. Montgomery
Hydraulic Fracturing/Pressure Analysis
Michael Smith
Industrial IOT’s – Oilfield Automation at Lower Total Cost of Ownership
Donald Paul
Brian Skeels
Integrated Core Analysis, Modelling and Reservoir Characterisation: Module 1 - Conventional Core Analysis and Reservoir Zonation
Peter Behrenbruch
Integrated Petroleum Economics and Risk Analysis
M.A. Mian
Intelligent Well Planning and Execution with Comprehensive Risk Management
Artem Fedorov, Cecilia Malagon, Tiberiu Ioan
Intelligent Wells, ICDs and AICDs: An Introduction to Advanced Completion Technology
Michael Konopczynski
Introduction to Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) and Underbalanced Drilling (UBD)
Deepak M. Gala
Introduction to Coiled Tubing Operations
Ed Smalley
Introduction to Commissioning and Initial Startup
Grant Gibson, Howard Duhon
Introduction to Drilling with Casing Technology
Ming Zo Tan, Steve Rosenberg
Introduction to EPC Project Management
Reza Dehghan, Ashok Kumar, Kamran Hazini, Behmanesh Sharif
Introduction to Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature, Acoustic, and Chemical Sensing (DTS, DAS, and DCS)
Introduction to Financial Management in the Oil and Gas Industry
Peggy L. Hedges
Introduction to High Pressure / High Temperature (HPHT) Development Well Design
Miguel Rosato, Anas Mohamad Sofian
Introduction to HPHT Completions
Miguel Rosato
Introduction to Liquefied Natural Gas Industry: Infrastructure, Regulation and Markets
Tom Russo
Introduction to Machine Learning for Petroleum Engineers
Carlos Damski
Introduction to Managed Pressure Drilling
Introduction to Managed Pressure Drilling Fundamentals
Abdul Saboor
Introduction to Offshore Decommissioning
Brian G. Twomey
Introduction to Oil and Gas Exploration and Production
Anastasis Kokkinos
Introduction to Re-fracturing Fundamentals
Tim Leshchyshyn
Introduction to Reservoir Engineering
Rob Lavoie, Brian Weatherill
Introduction to Sand Control
Philip Wassouf
Introduction to Underbalanced Drilling
Introduction to Valuing Information in Unconventional Resources
Kent Burkholder, Ellen Coopersmith
Introduction to Waterflooding
Machine Learning Image Processing MLIP
Zeyar Aung, Omar Al-Farisi
Managed Pressure Drilling
Management of Major Accident Hazards through an IADC Compliant Drilling HSE Case
Mark Cowan
Managing in the Current Environment; Mitigating Risks and Uncertainties to Maximise Upstream Returns
Ian Tchacos
Managing Project Risk and Uncertainty in Economic Evaluations
Mark Schneider
Managing Your Business Using PRMS (Petroleum Resources Management System)
John Etherington, Rawdon Seager
Managing Your Business Using PRMS and SEC Standards (2018 Update)
John Etherington, Rawdon Seager, Joshua Oletu
Mastering Uncertainty and Risk in Unconventional
Creties D. Jenkins
Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC): Causes and Preventive Methods and Technologies
Reza Javaherdashti
Microseismic Imaging of Hydraulic Fracturing - An Overview
Kenneth Mahrer
Mitigating Bias, Blindness, and Illusion in E&P Decision Making
Modern Production Data Analysis for Unconventional Reservoirs
David Anderson
Modern Well Design
Bernt S. Aadnoy
Modified EOR Methods for Better Displacement
Birol M.R. Demiral
Monte Carlo Simulation for the Oil and Gas Industry
Multiphase Pumping: Fundamentals to Field Applications
Hisham Saadawi
Multistage Completions, Fracturing, and Refracturing in Shales
W. Aaron Burton, Sergey Kotov
New Applications of Machine Learning to Oil & Gas Exploration and Production
Dr. Bernard Montaron
Oil and Gas Economics and Uncertainty (1-Day)
Rodney Schulz
Oil and Gas Economics and Uncertainty (2-Day)
Oil and Gas Reserves: The SEC Reporting Rules
Oil and Gas Well Operators Crew Resource Management (WOCRM) (1 Day)
Don Evans
Oil Sands Geomechanics
Dale Walters, Tony Settari
Oilfield 4.0: Where Petroleum Intersects the 4th Industrial Revolution
Peadar McKevitt
Oilfield Data Analytics - An Advanced Look at Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Shahab D. Mohaghegh
Oilfield Microbiology: The Fundamentals of Targeting, Testing and Treating
Virginia Wornstaff
Operational Excellence in Facilities and Major Capital Projects
Abdullah Al-Shoraian Al-Mutairi, Hanafi Younes
Optimising Existing Waterfloods
Brian Weatherill, Rob Lavoie
Optimizing Gas Fields Using Integrated Asset Modeling (IAM), and Introduction to Optimizing Shale Gas and Tight Oil Fields
S. M. (Sam) Avasthi, Luiz C. Amado and J. M. (Jay) Avasthi
Optimizing the Value of Oil and Gas Fields from Inception to Abandonment
Alok Jain
Overview of Pure-Solvent and Steam-Solvent Analysis and Design for Thermal In-Situ Operations
Mazda Irani
Overview of SAGD Analytical Models and Their Assumptions and Limitations
Overview of Subsea Well Abandonment
Bart Joppe, Darin Hilton
Permanent Plug and Abandonment of Wells – A Roadmap for Engineers
Mahmoud Khalifeh
Petrophysical Input to Geomechanics Modelling
Colin McPhee
Practical Application of PRMS (Petroleum Resources Management System)
Practical Aspects of CO2 Flooding EOR
Charles E. Fox, S. M. (Sam) Avasthi, J. M. (Jay) Avasthi
Practical Aspects of CO2 Flooding EOR and CO2 Geosequestration
Practical Aspects of Thermal EOR
Paul L. Bondor, Ashok K. Singhal, S. M. (Sam) Avasthi
Practical Aspects of Thermal EOR – An Advanced Course
Practical Course on Waterflooding
Dr. Ganesh Thakur, Dr. Ted Frankiewicz
Practical Decline Curve Analysis
Brian Weatherill
Practical Reservoir Surveillance and Management Techniques for EOR/IOR Projects
Practical Techniques for Screening Deepwater Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration Prospects
Luiz C. Amado, S. M. (Sam) Avasthi
Practical Wireline Formation Testing and Sampling
Mohamed Hashem
Pressure Transient Analysis
Tim Whittle
Principal Aspects of Water Flooding – From Water Source to Oil Export
Andrew Parker
Principals and Application of SCAL Data for Heavy Oil Reservoirs
Principles of Gas Well Performance and Deliquification
Bob Pearson
Principles of Well Performance; Artificial Lift and Gas-well Deliquification
PRMS - Then and Now
Charles Vanorsdale
Process Safety for E&P Operations
Mark Hansen
Production Decline Analysis—Vertical and Horizontal Wells
Steven W. Poston
Production Forecasts and Reserves Estimates in Unconventional Resources
Production Optimisation System
Atef Abdelhady
Production Optimization Using NODAL Analysis
Samson Ibukun
Project Risk, Uncertainty and Decision Analysis (1 Day)
James (Jim) Gouveia, Mark A. McLane
Project Risk, Uncertainty and Decision Analysis (2 Days)
PVT in Modeling Horizontal Multi-Fractured Wells in Ultra-Tight Rock
Python for Petroleum Data Analytics
Quality Control Techniques for Prospects and Acquisitions
Robert C. Shoup
Rapid Evaluation of SAGD Projects Using Type Wells and Statistical Aggregation
James (Jim) Gouveia, Bill Spackman, Jeanine Vany
Re-Fracturing – Candidate Selection and Design
Michael B. Smith
Reciprocal Mentoring: Building Connections That Make a Difference!
Reserves Assessment in Matured Assets
Reservoir Aspects of Horizontal and Multilateral Wells
Sada Joshi
Reservoir Characterization: From the Laboratory to the Field
Reservoir Compartmentalization: 21st Century Concepts & Applications
Jon Rotzien
Reservoir Heterogeneity and Characterization
Jerry L. Jensen, Larry W. Lake
Reservoir Simulation for Practical Decision Making
Dean C. Rietz, Miles R. Palke
Reservoir Surveillance of Mature Floods Using Streamline-based Workflows
Rod P. Batycky, Marco R. Thiele
Review for the Principles and Practice Exam
Richard G. Hughes, Bob W. Chase
Rigless Intervention Best Practices for Coiled Tubing, Slickline, and Wireline
Ron Zbitowsky, Todd Green
Optimizing Reliability, Risk and Compliance Through Human Factors Leadership
Don Evans and Ross Preston
Optimizing Reliability, Risk and Compliance Through Human Factors Leadership (1-Day Masterclass)
SAGD and In-Situ Recovery Technologies Development in Alberta, Canada
K.C. Yeung
Sand Control Design and Execution
Kesavan Govinathan
Sand Control Design and Optimisation
Sharifudin Salahudin
Sand Control for Heavy Oil Development
Mahdi Mahmoudi, Jeff Cyre and Vahid Fattahpour
Science and Technology of Water Treating
John M. Walsh
Screening and Field Piloting for EOR Project Development
Screening of Reservoirs for EOR/IOR
Separator Design and Troubleshooting
Robert Chin, Victor van Asperen
Shale Analytics
Shale and Tight Reservoir Evaluation and Development
Shale and Tight Reservoir Overview
Shale and Tight Reservoir Technical Analysis
Shale Hydraulic Fracturing: Design and Analysis
Shale PVT and Sampling
Mathias Lia Carlsen
Shale Resource Development - A Step by Step Process from Exploration/Appraisal to Development/Production and Rejuvenation
Usman Ahmed
Shale Selection, Completions, Fracturing and Production
George E. King
Social, Psychological and Cognitive Factors in Project Decision-Making
Howard Duhon
Solving the Challenges of Field Scale Heavy Oil and Oil Sands Simulation
SPE Leadership Academy: Leading in a Transforming World
Loïc Sadoulet, Jens Meyer
Strategic Leadership in the E&P Business
Mason Oghenejobo
Strategic Surveillance: Cost-Effective Options
Streamline Simulation: Theory and Practice
Subsea Well Interventions
Tar Mats and Bitumen Deposition; Origins and Properties
Oliver C. Mullins
Technical Writing and Publishing: Tools, Techniques, and Strategies
Technical Writing Workshop for Engineers
Camille Jensen
The Applications and Operation of Surface Jet Pumps to Enhance Oil and Gas Production
Sacha Sarshar, Najam Ali Beg
The Art of Facilitation - How to Make Any Course Engaging
Colleen Watson
The Fundamentals of Coalbed Methane Development
Don Sharples
The Science and Technology of Water Management in Upstream Operations
John Walsh, Ken Martins
The Sustainability Imperative: Making the Case and Driving Change (1 Day)
Johana Dunlop, Linda Battalora
The Sustainability Imperative: Making the Case and Driving Change (2 Days)
Johana Dunlop, R.L. (Roland) Moreau, Linda Y. Brewer, Alison Taylor
Thermal Reservoir Simulation for SAGD
Mike Carlson
Thermal Well Design and Integrity
Todd A. Zahacy
Thermal-Hydraulics Design and Optimization
Tight Gas Reservoir Development
Ismail M. Buhidma
Tips and Traps for SAGD Thermal Modelling: Better Quality Production Estimates
Transient Well Testing
Medhat M. (Med) Kamal
Unconventional Petroleum Engineering for Non-Engineers
Unconventional Reservoir Development
Unconventional Reservoir Production (Rate Transient) Analysis
Chris Clarkson
Unconventional Resource Assessment and Valuation
James (Jim) Gouveia
Unconventional: Production and Data Analysis
Dr. Reinaldo Jose Angulo Yznaga
Understanding Inorganic Scaling—Mechanisms, Control and Management
Gordon M. Graham
Understanding Well Integrity Over the Full Well Life Cycle
Simon Sparke
Upstream Petroleum Economics—Deterministic Models, Fiscal Regimes, and Stochastic Modeling Tools
Wumi Iledare
Using Project Resource Analysis to Manage Your Business
Creties Jenkins, Mark A. McLane
Water Treating for Shale Operations
John M. Walsh, Krishan Bansal
Waterflooding Concepts, Design Prediction and Optimization
Iraj Ershaghi
Waterflooding: Performance Predictions and Surveillance
Mike Wiggins
Well Abandonment and Integrity Overview
John Slofstra, Peter Wallis
Well Integrity and Barrier Management – Managing Risks and Assuring Reliability
Bibak Das
Well Integrity Challenges From Casing Failures During Fracturing
Well Integrity Impacts and Requirements for Fracturing and Acidizing in New and Old Wells (1 Day)
Well Integrity Impacts and Requirements for Fracturing and Acidizing in New and Old Wells (Half Day)
Well Integrity in the Operate Phase of the Well Lifecycle
Well Plugging and Abandonment (P&A)
Tom Leeson, Brian Twomey
Well Production Optimization
Fabio Gonzalez, Siyavash Motealleh
Well Stimulation: Theory and Application
John Yilin Wang
Well Test Analysis and Design
M.O. Onyekonwu
Well Test Interpretation
Louis Mattar
Well Testing - Getting the Objectives Right
Giovanni Da Prat
Well Treatment and Stimulation
H.A. Nasr-El-Din